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PNS Daily Newscast - September 13, 2019

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"The industry never really had a grasp on the amount of contaminants in copper, in these forgings, which can accelerate embrittlement," he says. "These are all legitimate concerns."

Entergy, the owner of Indian Point, says the plant is critical to the electric power supply for the region, including New York City, and employs about 1,000 skilled workers.

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will hold a hearing this week to collect evidence for Indian Point's license renewal application. Gunter says additional concerns, like the Indian Point facility's proximity to a major population center, were not part of the debate 40 years ago when the reactors went into operation.

"Clearly, these should be issues that are reviewed in the license renewal," he says. "They were never given fair consideration of fact and risk in the original licensing."

Some 20 million people live within 50 miles of the reactors, but the emergency planning zone only extends to a 10-mile radius.

The governor's letter also stressed that the reactors themselves are not the only danger – as Gunter notes, 40 years of radioactive spent fuel rods are being stored at the facility.

"These already over-packed, high-density storage pools are not only technological issues," he says, "they're also a growing security threat."